Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Sweden and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Zero Boys to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
Tears for Fears,
Donny Hathaway,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rotary Connection,
the Slits,
Archie Shepp,
Barry Ungar,
R.M.O.,
Pere Ubu,
Kenny Larkin,
Derrick Morgan,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sound Behaviour,
10cc,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skaos,
the Fania All-Stars,
Yaz,
Panda Bear,
Brass Construction,
The Count Five,
The Buckinghams,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sparks,
Goldenarms,
the Swans,
Barrington Levy,
Sun City Girls,
Livin' Joy,
Franke,
Bad Manners,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Blossom Toes,
The Standells,
Trumans Water,
Isaac Hayes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Scott Walker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Technova,
Swell Maps,
Traffic Nightmare,
Yusef Lateef,
The Offenders,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cameo,
Bob Dylan,
The Young Rascals,
Mo-Dettes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pagans,
Aaron Thompson,
Rekid,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Amazonics,
Quando Quango,
Peter & Gordon,
Electric Prunes,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.